Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union. To retain the loyalty of the ...

Marine Corps or the Revenue Cutter Service. They were given to veterans who served between April 12, 1861, and April 9, 1865. As members of the GAR began to die out, the Sons of Veterans — which later ...